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I started my work last week. At first I was a little excited and nervous at the same time but now after three days on the unit and working with patient, I am scared. what I fear the most is that I am not being a safe and effective nurse or that I may forget to chart something. while I am driving home and when I wake up, I can't help but think that my pt's are going to come after me a year later and say I didn't do my job as I should have. Please help, I am close to tears. I feel like nursing doesn't deserve me, I loved nursing while I was at school and I thought I was cautious enough but now I feel like everything I did doesn't add up to what I should be and I think I don't deserve getting paid, I feel guilty that they have to pay me. Is this normal? I am so scared to ask somebody else because I think they'll just laugh at my face. On my unit there are so many great and highly educated nurses but for some reason I have ended up with this nurse as a preceptor for which I can't find any respect for and I feel like I am not getting enough experience from her. I feel like everyone there hates me and think I am a dull & dumb nurse who doesn't understand or know anything. But I really want to stay as a nurse & trying to find my weakness to work at but still not clear enough. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!! (& thank you for reading and feeling my frustration & sadness) .

hello, i took my nclex on june 25th, and i am starting my work orientation tomorrow. i am a nervous wreck and don't no if i'll be adequate for the profession, esp what my co-workers will think of me. i'll be working at the tele unit, and i have worked there for two semesters of nursing school, still i am soooooooooo panicky. i am really hoping, i won't let my instructors and managers down. i just feel like crying because i feel like there's so much i still don't know .

Hello All, I am also taking NCLEX in june (end of the month) and I am a nervous wreck. I am trying to go over PEDS, OB, & Psych, esp my notes over the semesters. And then doing questions. Any opinions or suggestions on this? Right now I feel like I don't know anything. At the end of the semester, I felt a little confident. We do ATIs and our tests were ok too. We have good (in fact great) passing rate for NCLEX in our school. And I think I did really well in all the specialty areas as well as MedSurg portions in theory. But I don't know what to do and how to best go about studying; therefore, I have decided to take Kaplan course, even though I absolutely can't afford it. But I am taking it for reassurance (even if it's false), esp since I already have a job lined up and I am really scared. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GIVE ME SOME SUGGESTIONS!!!!!!!!!! SOME REASSURANCES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:cry::cry:

One of my new habit is that every time I am free and just sitting with my sister just watching TV, I'll be talking to her about something related to health. I'll either be explaining to her how her heart works, or her respiratory system works or if I am watching Gray's Anatomy, I'll be very objective and make sure she knows if they do anything that's not right. Now she doesn't watch Gray's Anatomy with me (sigh)!!!!!!!!!!